“I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.” -Mitt Romney, February 1, 2012 In 1996, the year that Congress passed and Bill Clinton signed welfare reform, fulfilling his campaign pledge to “end welfare as we know it,” there were 14.5 million poor children in the United States; 8.5 million children […]
Elizabeth Lower-Basch
Elizabeth Lower-Basch is the policy coordinator at the Center for Law and Social Policy